I have tons of cool gadgets with which I plan on capturing a very nice, cohesive history of Linnea's life, and the rest of mine.  I've always had a photo documentary of my life.  My parents kept album after ablum of photos from the day of my birth, and I looked through them often as I was growing up.  Once I got old enough, I got my own camera and started making gigantic scrapbooks full of photos, stickers, and other middle/high school paraphanelia that one might collect (keychains, movie stubs, friendship bracelets, etc.).  Thankfully we've moved into a new era of digitalous.  Everything has gotten smaller and supposidely "simpler".  I'm not so sure that is the case.

I have touted Flickr to friends and family and I've got about 2000 photos posted on my Flickr account.  I'm a big fan of being able to show my history to anyone who asks with a simple URL.  However, I can't help but feel that with all its advantages, the digital age has also taken something away - that simple ability to turn off the TV and plop down on the couch with a good old fashioned photo album.  I haven't made an album for about 8 years.  Everything is online.  I found a solution to that for our wedding, which was Mpix, a company that allows you to make a book and have it printed for a reasonable cost.  Awesome - there is my new ability to have something tangible, and I do go back and look at those books periodically.  The only problem is that it takes about 10 or 20 times longer to put together one of those books.  Time that is suddenly withering away with a newborn in hand. I'm working on a new book that is of Linnea's birth and first 5 days.  I have about 800 photos to choose from.  Ugh.

And with that said, I've also jumped into the realm of video.  Family video, that is.  I've got a Flip Video Camera now.  So far I've got about 35 different clips ov varying lenghts.  80% of them are of Linnea sleeping and doing absolutely nothing.  Hopefully I'll be more discretionary as time goes on, but at the moment, I've got a lot of footage to root through in order to make anything of any interest.  And in order to make a video by stitching together several little videos, I need even more time.  This is hard work.  Not to mention that I have a blog to keep up on top of all of that.  

Be ready for more stuff y'all, I'm jumping further into the technology quicksand.  There's bound to be some jewels in there, right?  

Linnea's Friends from Heather Alvis on Vimeo.